State Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says

It’s all unraveling now.

State Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says

In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing "clearly false" affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript of his remarks.

"I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case," Lamberth said during Friday's hearing.

The Department of Justice's Inspector General (IG), Michael Horowitz, noted in a bombshell report in June that it was "inconsistent with typical investigative strategy" for the FBI to allow Mills to sit in during the agency's interview of Clinton during the email probe, given that classified information traveled through Mills' personal email account. "[T]here are serious potential ramifications when one witness attends another witness' interview," the IG wrote.

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The State Department had immediately moved to dismiss Judicial Watch's first lawsuit on a motion for summary judgment, saying in an affidavit that it had conducted a search of all potentially relevant emails in its possession and provided them. The affidavit noted that some more documents and emails could be forthcoming.

But Lamberth denied the request to dismiss the lawsuit at the time -- and on Friday, he said he was happy he did, charging that State Department officials had intentionally misled him because other key documents, including those on Clinton's email server, had not in fact been produced.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-department-provided-clearly-false...

Seven highlights from bombshell IG report on the DOJ, FBI Clinton email probe

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's bombshell report on DOJ and FBI actions during the Hillary Clinton email probe takes particular aim at key figures who, until now, have mostly escaped official censure for their conduct while in office.

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Some of the key takeaways from the report include:

1. New texts between FBI lovers Strzok and Page were 'disappointing' and cast a shadow over the integrity of the entire Clinton email probe

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2. Five unnamed FBI employees -- including one lawyer who later worked on the Mueller probe -- are under scrutiny for anti-Trump bias

3. President Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Hillary Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account

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In a footnote, the IG notes that "FBI analysts and Prosecutor 2 told us that former President Barack Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account."

The information would suggest that Obama may have known about Clinton's private server, despite his claim in 2015 that he learned about it "the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/seven-highlights-from-bombshell-ig-repo...

FBI employees received 'improper' gifts from reporters, routinely leaked to media without authorization: IG report

Numerous FBI employees accepted inappropriate gifts from reporters and routinely spoke to media outlets without authorization during the Hillary Clinton email probe, the Justice Department's watchdog revealed in Thursday's long-awaited accountability report.

The shocking revelation came just a week after the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee -- who was in charge of maintaining all classified information from the Executive Office to the panel -- was indicted for allegedly giving false statements to FBI agents looking into possible leaks to reporters.

"We identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events," reads the report by the inspector general, Michael Horowitz.

But because the inappropriate gifts were outside the scope of the IG's look at the Clinton email investigation, Horowitz added that the DOJ watchdog "will separately report on those investigations as they are concluded."

In a chart attached to the report, the IG identified dozens of FBI officials who spoke to reporters without permission, including several special agents, special agents in charge, secretaries management and program analysts, attorneys, an "FBI executive," a deputy assistant director and an assistant director.

Remarkably, at least two unauthorized phone calls to reporters came from an "unattributed FBI HQ phone number," the IG report says -- suggesting that some employees at the bureau were brazenly leaking information from phones in the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-employees-received-improper-gifts-f...

It’s early. Only had an hours sleep. Right now all I’ve got to say is the biggest bad actors during that whole mess are finally being outed.

Makes you feel really confident in our top law enforcement and ‘intelligence’ community, doesn’t it?

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as though copying documents were harder than a double amputee in his sixties summiting Mt. Everest. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/chinese-double-amputee-con...

No way Obama or Kerry was going to hang the Democrats' next Presidential nominee out to dry before her lawyers had a chance to destroy remove her illegal personal emails from the otherwise complete set they undoubtedly produced in response to a subpoena. And we know it always takes two years to respond to a subpoena because that is how long it took Hillary to respond to a subpoena when she was the FLOTUS. The excuse then, though, was that the papers had gone missing, but, after two years, had mysteriously re-appeared in the dining room of the family quarters of--wait for it-- the White House.

The only explanation I can come up with is that someone broke into the White House to steal the papers and, two years later, broke in again to return them. Gee, ya'd think that the White House staff or the Secret Service people and/or the surveillance cameras that must be all over the family quarters like white on Bubba would have picked up something, woodentcha? But no.

Guess that disappearance and reappearance of the Whitewater billing records from the Rose law firm thing will forever be a mystery, especially since Susan McDougal did jail time rather than answer three questions about Bubba's involvement in Whitewater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McDougal All perfectly plausible to your average dembot, who will hasten to add that investigations of the Clintons never led to prosecution. Small wonder, what with taking two years to produce documents and witnesses willing to go to prison rather than testify. And, as everyone all over the the world knows, Bubba is willing to lie under oath.

Oh, and I really love this:

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript of his remarks.

How is a 75-year old federal court judge sitting in--wait for it--the District of Columbia since--wait again--1987--so clueless as to be shocked and dumb, er, dumbfounded by something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Lamberth

Where has Royce's head been all his life? On the links at some restricted exclusive country club?

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIyDf3gBoY]

As luscious as this is in the moment, though, nothing will happen to any of the billionaires (Kerry or Hillary) or the billionaire-in-waiting (Obama), though. After all, the country has no Michelin five-star prisons, not even the summer camp prisons where people like Nixon's henchmen or Scooter Libby serve time when they take one for one of their bosses.

But, the Clinton thugs are ever so much better than the Trump thugs, aren't they? Hmmm???? Different as night and night day.

Thank you for posting this, Amanda.

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@HenryAWallace

A closer look at his wiki reveals he was an Assistant US Attorney in the District of Columbia beginning in 1974, the year Nixon resigned the Presidency over the Watergate mess; and Royce is nonetheless shocked and dumbfounded that politicians do crappy stuff--a lot of it on purpose?

Royce, baby, get a grip.

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@HenryAWallace that Watergate was tiny potatoes compared what is going on now.

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dfarrah

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@dfarrah  
unlike Nixon’s artisanal Tricky-Dick-iness, nowadays everybody’s corruption model is scalable.

And how. Orders of magnitude. Dizzying. Off the charts. Exponential.

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@dfarrah

A President's men breaking into he office of a psychiatrist to steal a patient's records, with the President covering up and claiming the tape was erased accidentally? Plus, Watergate was by far not the only wrong thing about Nixon's administration. And you had a President claiming that everything is legal for a President. He literally asserted that a President was above all laws.

Trump is bad, but so were Obama and Bush 43.

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@HenryAWallace
all the way up that ladder. Some get away with it, some don’t.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

@HenryAWallace since him (Nixon) has said the same thing, one way or another (the president is above all laws).

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dfarrah

@dfarrah

but I didn't know they said it. While being interviewed and asked what he was saying, Nixon said, "I'm saying, if the President does it, it isn't wrong."

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thank you for all that you do to keep the light on this. I hope you have a chance to read Jeff Carlson at the following links. He keeps a chronology of the events of Russiagate and in the Clinton email investigation, and his commentary is very worthwhile reading, if you haven't already.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-jeff-carlson

https://themarketswork.com/

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@Linda Wood @Linda Wood @Linda Wood
I have another one up today that’s REALLY informative. (OOPS -see my edit)

NSA Director Rogers Disclosed FISA Abuse Days After Carter Page FISA Was Issued

https://caucus99percent.com/content/nsa-director-rogers-disclosed-fisa-a...

There’s some serious crimes involved in this mess. IMO the only shrine Obama deserves is a private penitentiary for himself, the Clinton Creature, and all their minions.

EDIT: today’s post is based on one of the articles in your link. The first one. Plus a link to an interviewer Clapper gave to Anderson Cooper where he admits it was Obama that turned the Intelligence agencies loose.

EDIT EDIT: have/gave

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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for anything? Lying to the court is perjury, last time I looked. Why aren't all these people being charged with perjury, at the very least? The freaking country is being run by people committing criminal acts because they are more afraid of being offed by the Clintons than they are of being put in jail.

The Clintons and everyone around them is corrupt. IMO, Hillary Clinton has committed treason by allowing her server (containing documents that should have never been there in the first place) to be accessed by at least one foreign government, most likely China. This was no accident. It was a selling of US secrets to a foreign government. These people should be in prison at the very least. God, will this ever end?

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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@gulfgal98
Just ask Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

@gulfgal98 for perjury! You get bumped into a higher tax bracket to play expert on CNN Fox etc.

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

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he never questioned them about anything involving Hillary's using her private email server. And that he let her sit in during Hillary's interview as her lawyer should never have happened. This goes against lawyerly rules. . And BTW what happened with Trump releasing the unredacted FISA warrants? Did he make a deal with the democrats for something and now he has no plans on doing it? I also thought we'd be seeing more of the IG report that wasn't redacted? Ever since Reddit went down I've been blind to what's happening with Q.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg
anything because...

Donald Trump delays FBI document release after objections from Justice Department, U.S. allies

WASHINGTON – Reversing course, President Donald Trump delayed the release of classified FBI documents on Friday after the Justice Department and foreign allies objected amid concerns that their publication may damage the investigation of Russian election interference.

The Department of Justice Inspector General "has been asked to review these documents on an expedited basis," Trump tweeted. "I believe he will move quickly on this (and hopefully other things which he is looking at)."

Trump said he has met with Justice Department officials, and "they agreed to release them but stated that so doing may have a perceived negative impact on the Russia probe. Also, key Allies’ called to ask not to release."

He did not identify which allies, though the United Kingdom and other international intelligence agencies have provided information on Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/21/donald-trump-del...

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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@Amanda Matthews

"they agreed to release them but stated that so doing may have a perceived negative impact on the Russia probe. Also, key Allies’ called to ask not to release."

The republicans are the ones who are trying to find out whether the FBI broke any laws during their bogus investigation into Trump. Especially when they got the FISA warrants and used the Steele dossier and lied to the judges.

The allies he's talking about are probably Britain's intelligence agencies that spied on him and then gave the information to ours. Can't have Americans knowing that foreign countries are spying on us just like ours is.

This article shows how Brennan used what the U.K. spies gave him and how he used it. This is from the website that Linda linked.

Spy Gate: the true story of collusion

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg in return for absolutely nothing. Blanket immunity is another thing I am very opposed to. Immunity, if any, should be very limited and only in return for actionable information.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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I'm no expert, obviously, and all I have to go by are tv crime shows (so shoot me). In those shows, the District Attorney (would be USAG on fed level, right?) gives the okay for immunity in exchange for info. In real life, that immunity or lighter sentence is granted in exchange for dirt on other(s), even if the other(s) is/are innocent.

Does it not work that way on a federal level? If it does work that way, who gave Conniving Comey the green light?

Apologies if I missed it.

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